One Step Beyond: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of One Step Beyond Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Tidal Wave
Aug 30, 1960
As a tidal wave approaches the Hawaiian Islands, the wheelchair-bound wife of a Naval engineer desperately tries to find someone to help her evacuate the doomed area. Nothing can
Anniversary of a Murder
Sep 27, 1960
In the midst of an adulterous relationship, a successful business man and his mistress are driving home one night when they accidentally cause the death of young bicyclists on a lo
The Death Waltz
Oct 4, 1960
A manipulative general's daughter arranges for one of her suitors to go on a dangerous mission so she can go to a ball with the other. When he is killed, his remark "I would come b
Moment of Hate
Oct 25, 1960
A woman believes she has the power to cause death by wishing it, and is placed under a psychiatrist's care.
To Know the End
Nov 1, 1960
...is to cure the suspense; a woman envisions her husband transformed.
The Trap
Nov 15, 1960
Just before he falls asleep, a man is suddenly aware that there is another life that seems to be in direct conflict with his own. He is astounded to discover that he has stumbled u
The Promise
Nov 29, 1960
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep. Frost
Tonight at 12:17
Dec 6, 1960
An expectant mother envisions a plane crash with startling clarity.
Where Are They?
Dec 13, 1960
Stones fall on Chico, California; a man goes to Washington, D.C with effervescent tablets that turn water into fuel for automobiles.
Rendezvous
Dec 27, 1960
A wife is notified that her husband, a Marine, has been lost at sea. However, she refuses to believe that he is dead and knows that he will return to her. Soon afterwards she is wa
The Executioner
Jan 3, 1961
A Confederate soldier lost behind Union lines is framed for spying. His dog saves him even after death.
The Last Round
Jan 10, 1961
A former heavyweight champion appears to save a boxing match during the blitz.
The Sacred Mushroom
Jan 24, 1961
Andrija Puharich's expedition in search of the sacred mushroom, with the help of a brujo, and ESP tests before and after.
Person Unknown
Feb 7, 1961
In Mexico, an escaped convict hides out in a monastery. Unfortunately, it is on the night when the ghost of an Aztec warrior is said to roam the halls. When a murder is discovered
The Stranger
Feb 28, 1961
In a disaster, he comforts the survivors, and afterward is found to have died in prison some time before.
Signal Received
Apr 4, 1961
On HMS Hood, ""England expects every man will do his duty.""
The Prisoner
May 2, 1961
The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead.
The Sorcerer
May 23, 1961
An army officer is acquitted of a murder he insists he committed.
Midnight
Jun 13, 1961
While walking across a fog-covered London Bridge one night, a struggling writer falls in love with a beautiful woman he meets there. Howewver, she isn't quite what she seems to be,
The Tiger
Jun 20, 1961
A stringent governess finds her charge cultivating an imaginary pet.
Nightmare
Jun 27, 1961
Paul Roland keeps painting the image of a woman from his nightmares to the dismay of his fiancee. Six days before their wedding he is compelled to drive with her to Cornwall for a
Eye Witness
Jul 4, 1961
A reportorial account of a distant disaster. Assez vu, assez connu.